"I must have known you were speaking about the home market because I had just read the linked article."
Yeah it made more sense in that context and it was also what I was thinking about. I admit I didn't think about workplace use. Not sure if most companies choose Windows because that is what most employees are familiar with.
1) because it's what their IT staff is comfortable with and it's what they advise companies to buy.
2) Unix sysadmins are somewhat more expensive than their Windows counterparts
3) Because there are a lot of applications that run only on Windows. The fact several of them are malware is completely ignored ;-)
4) There is a whole lot of documents that are in Word and Excel and that cannot be reliably converted to, say, OpenOffice. Companies must live with their past.
Yeah it made more sense in that context and it was also what I was thinking about. I admit I didn't think about workplace use. Not sure if most companies choose Windows because that is what most employees are familiar with.